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2023 Media Review

And so we come to another look back on everything that I watched and read over the course of the last year. I reached my goal of 52 books again (21,154 pages), which made me happy. I also watched 23 television series in their entirety and 88 movies. That’s 4 fewer TV shows than last year, and 15 fewer movies, for reference. It’s definitely felt like I haven’t been watching as much, but I don’t think I need to set a goal for that or anything. (Though I would like to watch a bit more, just to stay up on

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Television Review: Welcome to Wrexham Season 2

Ted Lasso has gotten a ton of great word of mouth and attention. I think pretty much everyone I’ve talked to has heard about the show, since it’s permeated the general pop culture scene. Deservedly so. It’s a great series. However, I don’t think nearly enough people know about Welcome to Wrexham (both seasons streaming on Hulu now), and that’s a shame, because the people who liked Ted Lasso will almost certainly like Wrexham. As a reminder, this one’s a documentary chronicling the efforts of Ryan Reynolds (of Deadpool fame) and Rob McElhenney (of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fame)

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Television Review: Squid Game: The Challenge

On paper, this seems like a terrible idea. “You know that game show where rich people watch poor people get killed? What if we did that for real?” Squid Game is great because of how horrific it is. How in the world would that even work? Simple. Just make the people pretend to die, instead of actually die. Keep everything else (almost), but make it so people don’t have to get shot for the game to continue. Would it still be as tense and riveting? The short answer is yes. For one thing, they put $4.56 million on the line.

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Television Review: Picard Season Three

So I discovered the best way to handle season two of Picard. Just don’t watch it. Not even a single episode. There’s nothing in the third season that connects to the second in any way. In fact, it seems like they purposefully ignore some of the most important elements of the second season, so even the writers just kind of waved the white flag and said they were sorry. Was season three any better? Yes-ish. It was about as blatant fan service as you can get, but if you’re watching a show called “Picard,” something tells me you kind of

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Television Review: Wheel of Time Season 2

The first season of the Wheel of Time on Amazon was a mixed bag. There were some aspects of it that I really loved. Seeing so many of these characters brought to life at last was really satisfying, and there were some parts that were fantastic. I loved the first episode, for example, with the Trolloc attack on Two Rivers. Other aspects were bewildering, like an entire episode devoted to Lan being sad, and random sexiness thrown in for seemingly no reason. (Did we need Lan and Moiraine in a hot tub? Who came up with that idea?) And then

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